Police officer pepper sprays baby squirrel

A video has surfaced of a police officer from Texas pepper spraying a baby squirrel.

According to FOX News, the incident took place last Wednesday at Kimbrough Middle School in Mesquite, TX, after animal control were alerted of the squirrel. The animal was described as behaving 'erratically', chasing people around the school.

However, a number of students have insisted that the squirrel was harmless, with an eighth grader claiming: "[It] didn't do anything at all. It didn't try to attack us or anything." They also said that at one point a school administrator kicked the squirrel out of the way, though the school district denied that this happened.

Police officer Davis was then called in to protect everyone from being bitten by the squirrel until animal control arrived, but unable to keep the mammal away, he resorted to using pepper spray on it, which disgusted watching students.

Watch the footage of the baby squirrel being pepper sprayed by an officer below: